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Meet in the Middle 4 Equality Rally Video

1 Comment Published June 1st, 2009 in On marriage and commitment.

Those of us who were unable to be in Fresno this weekend, by dint of geographical or logistic or financial or other entanglements, will be very inspired by this montage of speakers at the rally.   You can see how the spirits of César Chávez (¡sí se puede!) and Harvey Milk (you gotta give ‘em [...]

Unite the Fight’s video of Meet in the Middle

0 Comments Published May 30th, 2009 in APB, On marriage and commitment.

Unite the Fight is running a live video feed of events in Fresno today (I embeded this stuff above from their Qik Channel), and on their web page they also have a slideshow of still photos running.  As of 1pm, at the start of the rally, the embeded video should be transmitting the rally itself? [...]

21st of 21

10 Comments Published May 29th, 2009 in A month o' photos, Mostly a picture, On marriage and commitment.

A little mid-marriage equality/LGBT civil rights rally PDA, under the watchful eye of St. Pat’s.  Ahem. [Photo: Cheryl Dumesnil.]
I like to think that love will conquer all. I like to believe that the more of us believe this, the more true it becomes. If we’re not there yet  – love victorious and everlasting; love unconditional; [...]

20th of 21

0 Comments Published May 28th, 2009 in A month o' photos, Mostly a picture, On marriage and commitment.

THE POWERPUFF GIRLS SAY NO TO HATE! & YES TO LOVE!
This was taken just a little over a day ago, though it feels like a week.  On the Day of Decision, the afternoon after the CA Supreme Court released its cowardly ruling upholding Prop 8 for the thinnest and most internally contradictory of reasons, this [...]

19th of 21

5 Comments Published May 27th, 2009 in A month o' photos, Mostly a picture, On marriage and commitment.

Slide show of images in and around San Francisco, the afternoon following the CA Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Prop 8 (though also uphold the June-Nov marriages).
As of the wee, wee hours of Wednesday morning, I gave up waiting for all my photos to load to Flickr, where I stash them all.  I put in [...]

18th of 21

5 Comments Published May 26th, 2009 in A month o' photos, Mostly a picture, On marriage and commitment.

A slide show of images from this morning: first in front of the California Supreme Court before and after they released their ruling upholding Proposition 8, then inside City Hall, for the press conference.

Per usual, more to say here than I have time (or, right now, energy) with which to say it.  I hope the [...]

17th of 21

7 Comments Published May 26th, 2009 in A month o' photos, Mostly a picture, On marriage and commitment.

“This looks like the end of the story; but it isn’t.” Old Brown may seem to have Squirrel Nutkin in a deathgrip, but our furry friend is wilier than you might expect. 
Today I will be in San Francisco on the steps of the California Supreme Court (and elsewhere), likely apoplectic, but possibly ecstatic; still, likely, [...]

16th of 21

2 Comments Published May 25th, 2009 in A month o' photos, On marriage and commitment, Two kinds o' people.

Dress-up box aftermath. When the parents are engrossed in conversation, Things are Bound to Happen.
I don’t yet have a Memorial Day photo of my Pops, WWII - Normandy Beach-landing vet, because his annual BBQ dinner is this evening and I’m hoping to convince him to pose for me in his father’s ship captain hat (Pops [...]

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